What happens if there is a hung jury at Trump’s New York hush money trial?

Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial is drawing to a close and his fate is now in the hands of the jury of seven men and five women as they begin their deliberations after six weeks of revealing testimony.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee stands accused of 34 charges of llegal falsification of business records to conceal a $130,000 payment made on his behalf to the adult film star Stormy Daniels one month before the 2016 presidential election to ensure her silence about an alleged extramarital sexual encounter a decade earlier.

Mr Trump denies both the liaison with Ms Daniels and all of the charges against him, repeatedly insisting, without evidence, that the case against him is a “scam” and a “Biden witch hunt” designed by his political enemies to sabotage his return to the White House.

Defense attorney Todd Blanche used his two-hour closing argument on Tuesday to attack the prosecution’s star witness, Michael Cohen, as the “GLOAT” (or, “Greatest Liar Of All Time”) and listed what he claimed were 10 grounds for reasonable doubt as he urged the jury not to convict his client, a verdict that would go down in history as the first-ever successful criminal prosecution of an American president.

For his part, Manhattan assistant district attorney Joshua Steinglass carefully laid out the chronology of events that he said amounted to a “subversion of democracy” over a near-five-hour summation, reminding the jury that the trial was about Mr Trump, not Cohen, and declaring: “The name of the game was concealment… All roads lead inescapably to the man who benefited most.”

Now it’s up to the 12 Manhattanites who have spent 22 days at Manhattan Criminal Court listening intently to the evidence to decide whose